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The prince
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Adult Nonfiction JC143 .M38 2003
Machiavelli, Niccolo
Adult Nonfiction JC143 .M38 2003
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| Contents | Page |
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| Chronology | p. ix |
| Map | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| Further Reading | p. xxx |
| Translator's Note | p. xxxii |
| Letter to the Magnificent Lorenzo de Medici | p. 3 |
| I. - How many kinds of principality there are and the ways in which they are acquired | p. 7 |
| II. - Hereditary principalities | p. 7 |
| III. - Composite principalities | p. 8 |
| IV. - Why the kingdom of Darius conquered by Alexander did not rebel against his successors after his death | p. 15 |
| V. - How cities or principalities which lived under their own laws should be administered after being conquered | p. 18 |
| VI. - New principalities acquired by one's own arms and prowess | p. 19 |
| VII. - New principalities acquired with the help of fortune and foreign arms | p. 22 |
| VIII. - Those who come to power by crime | p. 28 |
| IX. - The constitutional principality | p. 32 |
| X. - How the strength of every principality should be measured | p. 35 |
| XI. - Ecclesiastical principalities | p. 37 |
| XII. - Military organization and mercenary troops | p. 40 |
| XIII. - Auxiliary, composite, and native troops | p. 44 |
| XIV. - How a prince should organize his militia | p. 47 |
| XV. - The things for which men, and especially princes, are praised or blamed | p. 50 |
| XVI. - Generosity and parsimony | p. 51 |
| XVII. - Cruelty and compassion; and whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse | p. 53 |
| XVIII. - How princes should honour their word | p. 56 |
| XIX. - The need to avoid contempt and hatred | p. 58 |
| XX. - Whether fortresses and many of the other present-day expedients to which princes have recourse are useful or not | p. 67 |
| XXI. - How a prince must act to win honour | p. 71 |
| XXII. - A prince's personal staff | p. 74 |
| XXIII. - How flatterers must be shunned | p. 75 |
| XXIV. - Why the Italian princes have lost their states | p. 77 |
| XXV - How far human affairs are governed by fortune, and how fortune can be opposed | p. 79 |
| XXVI. - Exhortation to liberate Italy from the barbarians | p. 82 |
| Glossary of Proper Names | p. 86 |
| Notes | p. 98 |
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